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Three people, including an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, were killed when their plane crashed in the Norfolk Botanical Garden Wednesday morning, according to Virginia State Police. The plane was found at about 7:20 a.m. in the Enchanted Forest Section off Azalea Garden Road, spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Anaya said in an email. State police said airport officers found the wreckage. The four-seater plane clipped the top of a tree while trying to descend into Norfolk International Airport, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. It flipped over and landed upside down, and the pilot and two passengers died at the scene, she said. Officials think the pilot...

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"It beats being at work!" glowed one Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) manager at a taxpayer-funded conference last December. The FAA spent $5 million to send 3,600 employees to a "conference" in Atlanta, although "whistle blowers and critics say [the conference] was little more than an...

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Three people, including an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, were killed when their plane crashed in the Norfolk Botanical Garden Wednesday morning, according to Virginia State Police.
The plane was found at about 7:20 a.m. in the...

In a few months, a pair of small unmanned drones will soar over forests and swamps in southwestern Nigeria, their onboard cameras scanning the ground for the remains of a lost civilization.
They'll be sussing out the scars of large-scale ditches and...

Virginia's largest electricity provider will face off against James City County and preservationists this week in a battle over proposed new electrical towers crossing one of the nation's most historic waterways.
The battleground is the Virginia...

Like pretty much all major forms of motorized passenger travel, air travel is heavily subsidized.
Virginia puts eight figures worth of funding into the airline industry each year with most of it – $28.3 million – earmarked as "financial assistance...

After Unitech Inc. in Hampton defaulted on a $275,000 loan from the Hampton Economic Development Authority, the city auctioned off the research and development firm's machinery and office equipment.
The attempt to recoup a portion of the money during...

It's been more than half a century since George Jetson first left his Skypad apartment in Orbit City, hopped into his bubble-top aerocar and flew off to his job at Spacely Space Sprockets.
And ever since the animated series "The Jetsons"...

A fighter jet owned by a Newport News-based company that provides training for the Navy crashed in Ventura County, Calif., on Wednesday and the pilot was killed, according to officials and media reports.
The Hawker Hunter MK-58 was approaching Naval Base...

Orbital Sciences Corp. has assembled a team of experts to find out why an unmanned Antares rocket suffered a catastrophic failure seconds after lift-off from Wallops Island last week.
The rocket exploded seconds after leaving the launch pad at the...

The Peninsula Airport Commission gave People Express notice to leave the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport terminal Monday because the company has not paid the airport approximately $100,000 in passenger facility charges.
The money has...

The Peninsula Airport Commission gave People Express notice to leave the Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport terminal Monday because the company has not paid the airport approximately $100,000 in passenger facility charges.
The money has...

In August 2011, lightning struck the Great Dismal Swamp and ignited a mammoth blaze that burned for 108 days, scorched 6,500 acres and blew choking smoke into surrounding states.
It was the biggest wildfire on record in Virginia history. And it sparked a...

The deal was: restore daily flights to Boston and New York, and Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport will pay $1.65 million of taxpayer funds to keep People Express in the air.
But after two months and a first payment of $650,000 from...

No specific changes are planned for budget airline People Express following an "unusual circumstance" last weekend that resulted in a flight cancellation and several delays, the company's president said.
The Newport News-based airline issued an...

The city of Newport News plans to put People Express and Vision Airlines on notice that they need to pay back a portion of the grant funding People Express received if service is not restored quickly.
"They are in default," said Newport News...

People Express officially launched Friday and said it will offer daily round-trip flights from Newport News to Newark, Boston and Pittsburgh beginning on June 30.
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m2 Pictures in downtown Hampton found a way to save money while enhancing its cinematic capability for TV show production: using a "drone."
"It's really important for us to stay on the cutting edge of technology," said Kathy Martin,...

No community wants the situation that unfolded this week in Ferguson, Mo. We all wonder what went so wrong.A young man is dead. An officer, and the police department, is blamed. The unrest that followed rips apart a city and gets front-page treatment...

After 14 years and $30 million, the Hampton Roads Executive Airport can finally handle larger corporate jets with the opening of its new runway.
"You don't understand what it took — 14 years," said Steve I. Fox, principal of Virginia Aviation...

In Hampton Roads, the word "drone" has usually referred to unmanned military aircraft. But given shrinking defense budgets, local companies would like to take this technology to U.S. commercial markets.
Businesses want to use drones —...